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Antimicrobial Additives and Coatings for Food Packaging

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May 31, 2001, ... with food contamination. Recent outbreaks of contamination associated with meat products heighten consumer concerns. To this end, food packaging engineers and scientists are investigating new ways to ...

Jet Inks, Colorants, and Packaging What's Ahead

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April 30, 2001, The rapid growth of ink jet technology in various printing sectors forecasts their use in package printing. However, use of ink jet printing in packaging The rapid growth of ink jet technology in various ...

The Missing Link: Plastics History Leads to Packaging

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April 30, 2001, From fake flowers to hygienic-paper packaging, Germany's Böhme family has been in plastics for nearly 50 years. For almost as long, the company has linked its print quality to Fischer & Krecke presses. ...

High Clarity Linear Low Density Polyethylene for Packaging Applications

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April 30, 2001, ... paper available on the TAPPI web site at tappi.org. On the page, click "the PLACE" in the section designated "Journals." For most consumer items, “eye-appeal” is an important consideration in packaging. ...

FPA Celebrates Excellence in Flexible Packaging

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February 28, 2001, The Flexible Packaging Assn. has announced the winners of its 2000 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards, which honor packaging and converting excellence. The Flexible Packaging Assn. has announced the ...

There Are Many Reasons for Packaging Peculiarities

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January 31, 2001, Do you ever wonder why so many different constructions can exist for a flexible packaging laminate? Do you think life would be much simpler if all items packaged in a flexible laminate product used the ...

Forging Ahead into the Digital Printing Frontier

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January 31, 2001, ... l background, Atlantic has been able to develop special packaging for such products as phone cards and gift certificates. The products require in-line folding and gluing. It's his ingenuity that makes the ...

Printer Helps Customers Manage Printing Needs

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December 31, 2000, ... ago, when several acquisitions increased the commercial printing segment of Wallace's business to nearly 50% of overall sales, on a par with its forms, labels, and packaging duties. "We picked up a lot ...

New Packaging Technology Will Star at Pack Expo

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September 30, 2000, Packaging and processing innovations will coexist harmoniously at Pack Expo 2000 and its companion event, the International Exposition for Food Processors. When Pack Expo International 2000 opens its ...

Printing/Converting Show Bursting at the Seams

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August 31, 2000, ... Advanced Foil Stamping Techniques, and sessions focusing on color control. GASC also has added three new converting-specific seminars to its educational program: Trends in the Packaging Industry , ...

Anilox Rolls Are Key When Printing Corrugated Board

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July 31, 2000, Printing on corrugated board is like printing on air," says Fernando Jorge da Silva, production manager at AssiDoman Packaging Benelux B.V. in Eindhoven, Printing on corrugated board is like printing ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, "Cellophane brought about the first transparent...packaging concepts." So said Dr. Richard Podhajny, one of PFFC's contributing editors, in his feature, "Cellophane brought about the first transparent...packaging ...

Converters See Hurdles Ahead in Digital Printing

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January 31, 2000, ... more interest generated, it may well be worthwhile. But the jury is still out in that regard." -- President, Flexible Packaging "There are niches for very expensive production of digital pieces. But ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... again. Packaging very often is the determining factor for consumers. In the fight to grab a browser's attention, end-users today know the importance of the printing, the color, and the design of a package. ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

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November 30, 1996, ... he said, he'd be surprised if it didn't make a major impact, and soon. Why? Because there's a lot of money to be made. Packaging alone is a $360 billion market. And purveyors of this form of on-demand ...

The role of barrier materials in packaging low-fat goods.

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October 31, 1996, ... to maintain product taste until consumed. A new study done by Aspen Labs of St. Paul, MN, and sponsored by the Films Div. of Mobil Chemical Co., looks at the role of flavor and aroma barrier in packaging ...

Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.

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October 31, 1996, When Flex-Pak purchased a new laminator for snack food packaging, it made sure that bare roll corona treating was included as a means of increasing quality When Flex-Pak purchased a new laminator for snack ...

Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.

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October 31, 1996, Himac helps Phoenix by downgauging its susceptor film, giving greater coverage for the material.Phoenix Packaging has parlayed its expertise in microwave Himac helps Phoenix by downgauging its susceptor ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... packaging runs. Duralam, a printer and converter specializing in value-added flexible packaging, began to sense a change in customer order patterns in the early 90s as it found itself facing an ever-increasing ...

Today's printing presses are whatever you want them to be

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March 31, 1996, ... in prominence over others, it would certainly be flexography. Reports Dr. Jules Farkas, VP, Comco International, Milford, OH, "Since 1985 the number of flexographic presses in the flexible packaging ...